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Trump says US will blockade Strait of Hormuz
- techblueberry 7mo agoAre we allied with Iran now?
- jqpabc123 7mo agoNo. Trump is only allied with himself and associates who keep placing "insightful" bets on Polymarket. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/08/newly-created-polymarket-accounts-bet-big-on-us-iran-ceasefire-in-hours-before-trumps-announcement-00864970 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/08/newly-created-polym...
- xg15 7mo agoTrump pulling an Uno Reverse and feeling very smart about it?
- general1465 7mo agoThe whole thing has "You are not divorcing with me, I am divorcing with you" vibes.
- jacquesm 7mo agoIndeed, it is pathetic.
- ericmay 7mo agoGreat to see the US is asserting its control over the Straight of Hormuz. Just like Iran "asserted control" by threats with missiles, we now assert control in the same fashion with our navy. Crazy! :)
- shaky-carrousel 7mo agoThe US is shooting down its citizens, blockading vital commerce routes, and accumulating a dangerous amount of nuclear weapons. It seems ripe for regime change.
- ericmay 7mo ago[flagged]
- nullocator 7mo ago> Iran has murdered over 30,000 of its own citizens for peacefully protesting. The US has not done that, nor have we "shot down" our citizens. The US has incarcerated ~1.2 million people. Just the year, agents of the U.S. government executed two citizens in broad daylight caught by dozens of cameras, it was national news in both cases. You say Tomato I say Tomato.
- ericmay 7mo ago[flagged]
- 1659447091 7mo ago> Yea, 2 people killed in highly volatile situations Don't forget the other ICE shootings and killings like the citizen in Texas that they killed and covered up for more than a year and when it was finally exposed...nothing. And the other shootings where people didnt die. Of course it was never the ice agent at fault, everyone tryin' run'em over all a sudden -- until video shows agents use the dumbest excuses to shoot people. > Iran’s government literally ordered soldiers with machine guns to fire indiscriminately toward protestors That's not great, but are you really trying to lower the standard we have for the US to Iran levels of terrible? The US needs to stay out of other peoples business and focus on the US. America first, no foreign wars -- isn't that what was promised. We destroy our institutions and infrastructure investments that actually worked for the people here to re-allocate a couple billion dollars into corporate tax cuts cause "my tax dollars", then multiply that "savings" into spend by fighting Israel's war for them. This isn't the US bailing "out the rest of the world" here. This is the US bailing out ourselves from our own mess.
- mindslight 7mo agoWhat an utterly pathetic man. He gave away the Strait of Hormuz to Iran with an ill-conceived plan. Even the US military-intelligence community had long thought attacking Iran a poor idea, and that's really saying something! And now instead of taking his licks and finding some way to downplay a swift loss to an elective way, his new genius response is to commit an act of war against the same countries Iran is attacking?
- jacquesm 7mo agoThe interesting bit to me is that everybody just plays along. Rather than that he gets thrown off his perch and replaced by someone sane. Trump is an idiot, no doubt about it. But all those that voted for him and that continue to enable him are the bigger idiots, and if they're not idiots they are probably hoping to profit from the chaos he's creating. That's because chaos is a good time to do some grabbing. You could see this during the downfall of the former Soviet Union, which in spite of being dirt poor still made a handful of families obscenely wealthy. Now imagine being able to do a similar resource grab on the scale of the modern United States. Trump 1, COVID, Trump 2, the Russian war on Ukraine, AI and a couple of more wars... It's a miracle things haven't gone further down - yet. But I'm really wondering how long our social constructs will be able to withstand this kind of concerted assault.
- xg15 7mo ago> Trump is an idiot, no doubt about it. But all those that voted for him and that continue to enable him are the bigger idiots, and if they're not idiots they are probably hoping to profit from the chaos he's creating. For all the assurances that the US military is an army with the ultimate task to protect the Constitution and bound to democratic principles, they sure seem to view the Commander in Chief as the sole authority, even if his orders are evidently illegal or undermine the democratic system (because Congress was bypassed). As the war is currently going, I'd have expected at least some generals or officers to refuse orders, not because they suddenly switched sides, but simply because the orders are not democratically legitimized anymore. But nothing like this seems to have happened so far. (Not even starting with ICE...)
- croes 7mo agoRandom US soldier: "Are we the baddies?"
- tail_exchange 7mo agoIran is far from being the good guys, but I cannot see the US as the good guys here either.
- croes 7mo agoThere doesn’t have to be a good guy
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- aaron695 7mo ago[dead]
- general1465 7mo agoUSA is racing with Iran who can get to 200USD per barrel faster.
- jacquesm 7mo agoAsia is already in trouble on account of this, that won't go much further without something breaking. https://www.osac.gov/Content/Report/910d11da-595a-40a4-836c-29d07d8898a0 https://www.osac.gov/Content/Report/910d11da-595a-40a4-836c-...
- seanmcdirmid 7mo agoIt’s a great opening for Chinese EV and green energy tech producers.
- pseudohadamard 7mo agoIs this a Trump version of "nobody move or the n**er gets it?" from Blazing Saddles? Taking yourself hostage so the other side doesn't have to do it?
- oliwarner 7mo agoSeems a pretty obvious goal, yeah. Raise the prices to extremes for oil and gas producing allies through regional uncertainty, bomb infrastructure to keep them high, encourage Israel to keep doing what Israel, flooding the EU with asylum seekers. He's padding his own pockets, crippling the EU's and continuing to centralise influence around himself. Pretty typical megalomania. Y'all voted for this. Twice.
- Razele 7mo agoso now iran’s allies need to get their oil elsewhere. could only mean one thing for prices.
- jacquesm 7mo agoI wonder if Donald Trump is aware that he is asking for a repeat of Pearl Harbor.
- enoint 7mo agoI think the first shots looked like the strategy at Pearl Harbor. So it’s more appropriate to learn that Japanese success at Pearl Harbor didn’t grant Japan any choices about how the war would end.
- techblueberry 7mo agoI have a conspiracy-adjacent question. Let’s say your goal was to reduce globalization, but tariffs were too unpopular a way to do so. They too directly put the blame on the president for what happens. Would starting a war with Iran, shocking energy and transportation prices, raising the costs of exports from every other country be a more solid mechanism? Especially when the US is a net exporter from oil and could conceivably protect domestic industries from the same? It also - if Trump loses the presidency, the Iran war impacts will continue for years, the impact of tariffs would end relatively quickly.
- amluto 7mo ago> Especially when the US is a net exporter from oil and could conceivably protect domestic industries from the same? The oil companies would likely be extremely unhappy if they were not permitted to export their products.
- techblueberry 7mo agoTrue I mean it’s high risk and maybe dumb, but I wouldn’t put it past the current thought leaders to turn against traditional free market ideology.
- bigbadfeline 7mo ago>> tariffs... too directly put the blame on the president. Would starting a war with Iran... be a more solid mechanism? War puts the blame on the president even more directly. >> Especially when the US is a net exporter from oil and could conceivably protect domestic industries from the same? The US is a huge net importer of goods. The oil surplus is rather small, has been recorded only for the last 3 years and it can't meaningfully change the US balance of trade. > shocking energy and transportation prices, raising the costs of exports from every other country... and the US could conceivably protect domestic industries from the same? Nothing will be protected, quite the opposite, the US will be the country hardest hit by inflation because, given the huge net imports, we are the country that benefits the most from unimpeded trade and lower cost of production in other countries. Trumps tariffs didn't decrease the trade deficit, in fact the deficit for 2025 was significantly higher than the pre-covid 2019. The deficits for Feb and Mar 2025 were the highest monthly deficits in history, beating the previous records by almost 100%. >> Let’s say your goal was to reduce globalization "reducing globalization" is a meaningless term, reducing the standard of living is what matters, choking international trade will cause higher reduction in the US than in other countries. > I mean it’s high risk and maybe dumb, but I wouldn’t put it past the current thought leaders to turn against traditional free market ideology. "Ideology" is a fig leaf, what matters is the money and power in the hands of the most special interest groups, it's a small club and you ain't in it.
- Phelinofist 7mo ago[flagged]
- xg15 7mo agoYeah, it feels like "ha-HA! I bet you didn't think I'd do that!" - "No... we actually didn't..." Or is he attempting something similar like the British during Mossadegh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadan_Crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadan_Crisis
- ericmay 7mo agoThen whose ships are left? The US doesn’t have any. If you think Iran will just sell oil to China and India (gentle reminder Iran is with Russia against Ukraine) and somehow the Gulf States and Europe won’t get theirs, the US will just blow up Iran’s oil exporting capacity and then nobody gets oil. The rest of the world better start figuring out how to pressure Iran or take military action against Iran, or the whole Gulf is going to shut down and America isn’t hurt that bad besides MAGA not being able to fill up their giant trucks.
- numpad0 7mo agoI just wonder if all he wanted was another trinket gifting ceremony in his office with "the CEO of Iran", and he thought everything he's approved was strictly for show. That seem to explain a lot of his visible confusions and weird messaging, to me...
- logicalmind 7mo agoAt this point I'm skeptical enough to believe this is yet another attempt at market manipulation.
- locallost 7mo agoSo the problem of skyrocketing oil prices because of the Iranian control of Hormuz will be solved by a blockade, which will prevent even more oil from reaching the market. Nobody is 1) this stupid to do it 2) this stupid to bite on this threat
- tim333 7mo agoThere's a comedy sketch in there somewhere. I expect it'll be called the Straits of Trump soon.
- maxglute 7mo agoInteresting times intensifies.
- IAmGraydon 7mo agoIs it a coincidence that he posts an insane sounding headline grabber the moment that his dictator buddy Orban announces his loss? The idea that a dictator could be ousted is very consequential to Trump, and isn’t an idea he would want to allow to spread.